Israel has not set a time limit for its current Gaza ground operation to root out Hamas, war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said on Wednesday.

“On the question of the operation’s length, there are no limitations,” Gantz said, sitting down with reporters in Tel Aviv.

The former defense minister and top military general said that the conflict, triggered by Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught that killed over 1,400 in Israel’s largest-ever mass casualty event, is existential — in terms of both Israeli security, and its “Zionist and democratic” values.

“The war here is for our existence and for Zionism, and so I can’t provide an estimate of the length of each stage in the war and the fighting that will continue after. We can’t retreat from our strategic objective,” Gantz said.

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